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«I have never concealed that I am a transgender guy»
Since my early childhood, I have identified as a boy. I remember how I asked my classmates not to address me as a person of female gender in 7th grade. Despite complicated relationships with them, they accepted it. I was never bullied and even chosen as a class representative every September.
I have never concealed that I am a transgender guy and I have never hidden from anyone. Of course, I do not introduce myself like, «Hi, I am transgender», but, if it comes up in conversation, I don’t conceal anything.
At age seventeen, I went to a specialist. She said she was going to be my main mental health counsellor, suggested I visit her when I reached eighteen and left her phone number. Back at home, I showed my mom, who was still alive then, this paper. Mom could not accept this. She called the therapist and shouted at her.
When I was eighteen, my mom died because of copious drinking. She was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes not long before her death. She ignored any treatment, didn’t leave the flat and drank vodka. It happened at the beginning of June when I was entering the faculty of physics at Moscow State University. I studied physics in the morning, and then went on a walk with a friend. I came home late in the evening, and I began studying again. I remember my grandmother went to my mom, and then called me. Signs of lividity were already on mom’s body, so the emergency services could do nothing but confirm her death.
At age nineteen, I went to Saint Petersburg where the medical commission [on gender transition] was cheaper and did not require extra analyses. It was led by the late Dmitry Isayev. I received a medical report that allowed me to receive hormone therapy for life. I changed my passport and personal insurance policy number in June 2023. Two months before this, an endocrinologist diagnosed me with a «female form of transsexualism» and prescribed hormones.